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I ran across this yesterday on Tony’s blog and I loved it so much I wanted to pass it on. 7 Reasons Why the Church Needs Artists 1//Only through art can we know God more fully. A person encounters God as an artist before he encounters him as a theologian. We have reduced God’s primary [...]

For you guys out there that may not have found Planning Center Online yet, you need to. Its been one of the most useful tools we’ve ever used around here.  If you do use it, and for my guys, they have released some pretty cool updates. You can see the complete list of them here. [...]

Ok, everywhere I turn I keep running into this article. It’s ridunkulousness taken to the max. This is being added to my “stupid christians” list as we speak. Here’s an excerpt from the article… A Christian group based in San Diego found grounds for outrage over the new retro-style logo for Starbucks Coffee. The Resistance [...]

While we were in Zambia, the majority of our time was spent with kids. We couldn’t get enough. They seemed to live ok without power,water or food, they were even cool having to go the bathroom in a river. Although half of the population is under the age of 15 and undernourished it would seem [...]

It’s amazing how one single event, no matter how long or short, can change you forever.  I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the trip I took to Zambia last year. It’s been almost a year and my world is still upside down. When I think about those kids from the village that I loved [...]

We’ve been in a series called Dust since Easter. The premise is easy, following so close to Jesus that we’re covered in his dust. It’s original intent was to be a discipleship series, especially for those newbies that got saved on Easter. But it’s really taken on a whole new light. It’s turned out really [...]

Toward the end of last year, our Pastor was speaking on evangelism and he made the statement that our biggest tool for soul winning was our own story. He went on to challenge everyone to think through their stories. Remember them. Prepare them. Not just the story of our conversion, but more than that, the [...]

//First off I’m listening to a folky version of Brick House. Very interesting. //I unplugged for the last few days (in prep for the weekend) and I’ve got over a hundred emails in the inbox punishing me for disappearing. //I taught this weekend, and I’d say it was one of the hardest messages I’ve ever [...]

I’m so excited to announce that Bay Community will be participating in One Prayer. I believe this is one of the most revolutionary efforts that have ever been made in unifying the global church. I think this initiative will only be the beginning. So for all you Bay folks out there, we will be doing a series through [...]

Easter 08 was awesome. It started off with an Agape, which is a quarterly worship concert, that was bigger than ever. As I said in my previous post, we had around 1100, which is double our typical crowd. We ended the night with Igniter’s Sunday’s Comin’. Which is perfect for a Good Friday closer. Then [...]

Tonights Agape was amazing.  Over 1000 people showed up, which makes it our biggest Agape ever.  I’ll have some pictures up as soon as I round them all up. During the set up today we had a small accident… a very painful one. I thought I was going to cry.  Thank God no one was [...]

With the craziness of Easter right around the corner, we started doing something low key on the weekend before.  Our idea was to take a weekend and make it all about the Sacraments.  Last year we incorporated water baptism also, but this year we decided to really focus on communion and make it as intimate [...]